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Looking Back: Case Not Handled ‘Righteously’

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|Date: July 05, 2020
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Looking Back: Case Not Handled ‘Righteously’

(Editor’s note: This is the first installment of the new weekly column "Looking Back." "Looking Back" wi ...

(Editor’s note: This is the first installment of the new weekly column "Looking Back." "Looking Back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeffrey Deskovic previously wrote while a columnist at The ...

July 05, 2020
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Wrongful Conviction Project – Episode 2, Franky Carrillo

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|Date: June 12, 2020
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Wrongful Conviction Project – Episode 2, Franky Carrillo

Franky Carrillo was one of the cases featured on Netflix’s series, “The Innocence Files.” The story begi ...

Franky Carrillo was one of the cases featured on Netflix’s series, “The Innocence Files.” The story begins in 1991 when Donald Sarpy was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting as he was standing in t ...

June 12, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 69 – Wife of Walter Barton Speaks Out

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|Date: June 09, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 69 – Wife of Walter Barton Speaks Out

On May 19, Walter Barton became the first person executed in the US in over two months, convicted of kill ...

On May 19, Walter Barton became the first person executed in the US in over two months, convicted of killing an 81-year-old acquaintance nearly three decades ago. But the Innocence Project and others ...

June 09, 2020
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The Connection between Police Brutality and Wrongful Convictions

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|Date: June 03, 2020
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The Connection between Police Brutality and Wrongful Convictions

Statement from the Innocence Network: On May 25th, George Floyd, a 46-year old Black man, was killed by p ...

Statement from the Innocence Network: On May 25th, George Floyd, a 46-year old Black man, was killed by police after an officer kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes. Floyd’s life and future is ...

June 03, 2020
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Minnesota Adopts Eyewitness ID Law to Prevent Wrongful Convictions

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|Date: May 26, 2020
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Minnesota Adopts Eyewitness ID Law to Prevent Wrongful Convictions

By Linh Nguyen SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA-- On May 16, 2020, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed legislation th ...

By Linh Nguyen SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA-- On May 16, 2020, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed legislation that requires law enforcement in the state to adopt scientifically-based lineup procedures to pre ...

May 26, 2020
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My View: “I, Walter ‘Arkie’ Barton, am innocent and they are executing an innocent man!”

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|Date: May 23, 2020
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My View: “I, Walter ‘Arkie’ Barton, am innocent and they are executing an innocent man!”

The question out of Missouri this is week is one of the most fundamental we can ask in the criminal justi ...

The question out of Missouri this is week is one of the most fundamental we can ask in the criminal justice system—did we just execute an innocent man? And perhaps more importantly—why? That is the q ...

May 23, 2020
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Oklahoma Becomes Third in the Nation to Require Statewide Tracking of Jailhouse Informants

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|Date: May 23, 2020
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Oklahoma Becomes Third in the Nation to Require Statewide Tracking of Jailhouse Informants

When Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a new law cracking down on unreliable jailhouse informants— inc ...

When Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a new law cracking down on unreliable jailhouse informants— incarcerated witnesses who testify in exchange for leniency in their own cases – Oklahoma moved ah ...

May 23, 2020
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Rachael Rollins Moves to Vacate 64 Guilty Pleas Following Drug Lab Scandal

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|Date: May 12, 2020
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Rachael Rollins Moves to Vacate 64 Guilty Pleas Following Drug Lab Scandal

By Dominique Kato & Shellsea Lomeli SUFFOLK COUNTY, MA - Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rol ...

By Dominique Kato & Shellsea Lomeli SUFFOLK COUNTY, MA - Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins has asked the state's Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) to vacate guilty pleas of 64 people fac ...

May 12, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 65 – St. Louis Prosecutor Kim Gardner

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|Date: May 01, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 65 – St. Louis Prosecutor Kim Gardner

Kim Gardner was elected chief prosecutor in St. Louis in 2016. Since then she has been taking on the syst ...

Kim Gardner was elected chief prosecutor in St. Louis in 2016. Since then she has been taking on the system—the first black circuit attorney in St. Louis, in January she filed a federal civil rights l ...

May 01, 2020
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Netflix’s The Innocence Files: Arrest, Convict, Move on to the Next

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|Date: April 27, 2020
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Netflix’s The Innocence Files: Arrest, Convict, Move on to the Next

By Nancy Martinez The final segment of Netflix’s The Innocence Files spotlights yet another major cause o ...

By Nancy Martinez The final segment of Netflix’s The Innocence Files spotlights yet another major cause of wrongful convictions—prosecutorial misconduct—by following the stories of three exonerated me ...

April 27, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Dealing with Wrongful Convictions and the False Allegations of Rape in the Me-Too Era

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|Date: April 26, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Dealing with Wrongful Convictions and the False Allegations of Rape in the Me-Too Era

I grew up in the 80s and early 90s at a time when society was just recognizing the prevalence of sexual a ...

I grew up in the 80s and early 90s at a time when society was just recognizing the prevalence of sexual assault and rape. It was my generation that became sensitized to the concept of “date rape” and ...

April 26, 2020
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Netflix’s ‘Innocence Files’ Continue with Limitations of Human Memory

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|Date: April 23, 2020
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Netflix’s ‘Innocence Files’ Continue with Limitations of Human Memory

By Nancy Martinez The second subseries of Netflix’s "The Innocence Files" focuses on two wrongful convict ...

By Nancy Martinez The second subseries of Netflix’s "The Innocence Files" focuses on two wrongful convictions caused by mistaken witness identifications. Episodes Four and Five investigate the case of ...

April 23, 2020
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Situation in California Prisons Precarious as First COVID Death Occurs at CDCR

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|Date: April 20, 2020
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Situation in California Prisons Precarious as First COVID Death Occurs at CDCR

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) today announced an inmate from Califor ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) today announced an inmate from California Institution for Men (CIM) in San Bernardino County passed away at an outside area hospital ...

April 20, 2020
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My View: Disgraced Forensic Dentist Goes on the Attack on Innocence Files

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|Date: April 18, 2020
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My View: Disgraced Forensic Dentist Goes on the Attack on Innocence Files

The Netflix series, the Innocence Files, tracks three stories over nine episodes. The first three focus ...

The Netflix series, the Innocence Files, tracks three stories over nine episodes. The first three focus on the story of Levon Brooks and Kennedy Brewer. Those who have read Radley Balko’s book are w ...

April 18, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 58: Senator Wiener Discusses Wrongful Conviction Legislation

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|Date: April 09, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 58: Senator Wiener Discusses Wrongful Conviction Legislation

In February, Senator Scott Wiener introduced new criminal justice reform legislation, Senate Bill 938. Th ...

In February, Senator Scott Wiener introduced new criminal justice reform legislation, Senate Bill 938. This bill would amend the standards used for evaluating expert testimony and forensics in court, ...

April 09, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 57 – Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez

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|Date: April 06, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 57 – Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez

Eric Gonzalez was appointed the DA of Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, in 2016 after Ken Thompson, his ...

Eric Gonzalez was appointed the DA of Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, in 2016 after Ken Thompson, his predecessor, died. In 2017, he won his own term. We talked extensively about the COVID-19 threa ...

April 06, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 56 – Duke Wrongful Conviction Clinic Discusses Ronnie Long

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|Date: April 03, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 56 – Duke Wrongful Conviction Clinic Discusses Ronnie Long

Ronnie Long has served nearly 44 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He was arrested in 1976 o ...

Ronnie Long has served nearly 44 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He was arrested in 1976 on trespass charges, charged and later convicted of rape, sentenced to 80 years and has been in ...

April 03, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 55 – Story of Joann Parks Wrongly Convicted of Arson Murder

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|Date: April 01, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 55 – Story of Joann Parks Wrongly Convicted of Arson Murder

In 1989 she was a young mother who lost her kids in a tragic fire. Except the investigators at the time, ...

In 1989 she was a young mother who lost her kids in a tragic fire. Except the investigators at the time, using archaic methods, determined that it wasn't a tragic fire, it was arson and therefore murd ...

April 01, 2020
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Governor Commutes Sentences of Four People, Including Subject of Book, Represented by the Innocence Project

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 29, 2020
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Governor Commutes Sentences of Four People, Including Subject of Book, Represented by the Innocence Project

On Friday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he granted five pardons and 21 commutations. In their pre ...

On Friday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he granted five pardons and 21 commutations. In their press release, the governor’s office noted, “These clemency grants were in progress before the COV ...

March 29, 2020
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Wrongful Conviction Project – Episode 1, Maurice Caldwell

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|Date: March 19, 2020
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Wrongful Conviction Project – Episode 1, Maurice Caldwell

Maurice Caldwell was convicted in 1991 in San Francisco Superior Court in the June 1990 death of Judy Aco ...

Maurice Caldwell was convicted in 1991 in San Francisco Superior Court in the June 1990 death of Judy Acosta, who was shot dead during an apparent drug deal that went sour in the Alemany public housin ...

March 19, 2020
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